Knocked off bike

I was knocked off my bike on the way home from Montgomery Road last night (Monday). Before anyone worries too much I am not seriously injured.

I was traveling north on Campkin Road around 11:15pm, approximately at the zebra before Crowlands Way, when a car passed me very close and something hit me hard on the right elbow. I assume it was a wing mirror. The car did not stop but continued north. Under the circumstances spotting the license plate was not possible.

A Scandinavian-sounding woman helped me up and checked I was basically OK. A couple appeared a minute or so later and similarly checked I was OK. I walked home.

My injuries are:

• the base of my right thumb hurts a bit if I put any weight through it
• my right elbow aches (but has no visible bruising at that point; I think the end of the radius)
• a graze on the opposite side of the same elbow
• aching and a graze at the top of my right leg
• I have a cut to my left shin and some grazes below it

I can still type, as you can see, but clearly I won't be doing any heavy lifting with my right hand for at least a few days.

I did not spot any serious damage to my bike (though I've not checked it in daylight). My front light had spilled its batteries but when I reassembled it at home it was fine. My chain has come off. I had no trouble wheeling my bike home so I don't think the wheels are buckled at all.

I reported it to the police over the phone last night and they said I should come in today to fill in a report. I plan to do that this afternoon.

Debian lenny

I recently installed Debian lenny on a second-hand PC bought from fivemack. I think it very well; I ran into a couple of minor installer wrinkles (described in detail in my installation report: in summary, poor feedback about a non-working network, and the partitioner hangs if you confuse it hard enough) but the onboard network, sound and video were correctly detected without any assistance from me, producing a reasonable functional Gnome desktop reasonable time.

lenny isn't quite released yet; however it is ‘frozen’, which I decided was good enough for me to get going with an install rather than put etch on the same machine.

Annoyingly my USB keyboard won't talk to the BIOS (other USB keyboards do though and I have a non-USB keyboard around for emergencies still) and therefore to Grub. It gets on fine with Linux however.